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“We offer our sincerest condolences to the friends and families of the victims killed in the attacks in Halle, Germany, and wish the injured a speedy recovery,” said the U.S. State Department.
“I call on the German authorities to continue taking determined action against anti-Semitism,” says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after a gunman kills two people on the Jewish holiday.
If convicted of murder, John Earnest, 20, could face the death penalty, though prosecutors haven’t said what sentence they would seek.
“It’s wrong. It’s harmful. And his bigotry is reflective of the white supremacist base he relies on for political gain,” says Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.).
Two Jewish students in Melbourne, Australia, were taken out of school after being the targets of anti-Semitic bullying in separate incidents.
“Let’s not be fooled: This is not a dialogue about policy; these are tactics to divide us from each other and sow fear. All of us should reject this action as cowardly and destructive to community,” Rabbi Laurie Franklin of Har Shalom in the western Montana city of Missoula.
It features Rob Abrams, a Jewish anti-Zionist activist who in May 2018 led the Kaddish prayer in Parliament Square for 62 Palestinians killed on the Israel-Gaza border, at least 50 of whom were Hamas operatives.
Ashley St. Clair attended what she told Right Wing Watch was a “diverse dinner.”
The educational institution was under fire for inviting him to speak, with World Jewish Congress president Ronald S. Lauder saying the school “should be ashamed of themselves.”
Protesters at City Hall demand action against a spate of anti-Semitic crime, especially in Brooklyn, saying: “Where are our elected officials?”
“Boycotts do nothing to bring about peace and are designed entirely to demonize Israel. This is another dark day in the history of the Labour Party,” said Labour Friends of Israel director Jennifer Gerber.
Deven Anderson has a history of praising National of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who has an extensive history of making anti-Jewish remarks such as “I’m anti-termite,” and that Hitler was “a very great man.”
